The temperature on September 5, 1889 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Day of marriage January 28, 1914
The temperature on January 28, 1914 was between -1.5 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 5 » World War I: The German minelayer SSKönigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMSAmphion.
August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
Day of death February 11, 1967
The temperature on February 11, 1967 was between 0.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
June 4 » Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
June 9 » Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
October 29 » Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Frans Zantvoort, "Familie Zantvoort", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/familie-zantvoort/I809.php : accessed April 27, 2024), "Maria Elisabeth van der Meij (1889-1967)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.